https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/Problem-while-trying-to-run-status-command-for-search-head/m-p/117750#M4450 <P>Hi mahamed_splunk,</P> <P>I am able to run the initialize command but while creating a captain by running bootstrap command</P> <P>splunk bootstrap shcluster-captain -servers_list ":,:,..."</P> <P>I am getting error as "splunk does not recognize bootstrap command. Please check command or go to Splunk help".</P> <P>Please let me know why this error occurs as in documentation this command is mentioned</P> Mon, 09 Feb 2015 06:14:36 GMT Sourabhv05 2015-02-09T06:14:36Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/Problem-while-trying-to-run-status-command-for-search-head/m-p/117748#M4448 <P>When i am trying to execute search head status command "splunk show shcluster-status -auth admin:password" from command promt at one of my Search head, It just return back to console without showing any status.</P> <P>I have admin rights at the servers. What can be the issue ? Why i am not able to see the status of my search head cluster</P> Tue, 03 Feb 2015 09:20:49 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/Problem-while-trying-to-run-status-command-for-search-head/m-p/117748#M4448 Sourabhv05 2015-02-03T09:20:49Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/Problem-while-trying-to-run-status-command-for-search-head/m-p/117749#M4449 <P>Is it happening on only one of the nodes or on all nodes ? </P> <P>One reason could be that this SH is not properly added to SHC and is not part of SHC, hence the status command doesn't return anything</P> Tue, 03 Feb 2015 17:05:26 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/Problem-while-trying-to-run-status-command-for-search-head/m-p/117749#M4449 mahamed_splunk 2015-02-03T17:05:26Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/Problem-while-trying-to-run-status-command-for-search-head/m-p/117750#M4450 <P>Hi mahamed_splunk,</P> <P>I am able to run the initialize command but while creating a captain by running bootstrap command</P> <P>splunk bootstrap shcluster-captain -servers_list ":,:,..."</P> <P>I am getting error as "splunk does not recognize bootstrap command. Please check command or go to Splunk help".</P> <P>Please let me know why this error occurs as in documentation this command is mentioned</P> Mon, 09 Feb 2015 06:14:36 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/Problem-while-trying-to-run-status-command-for-search-head/m-p/117750#M4450 Sourabhv05 2015-02-09T06:14:36Z